IRELAND’S communists warned yesterday that the left’s “abdication” of opposition to the EU was driving working-class voters into the arms of the right.
The warning came in the wake of the narrow defeat of Austrian far-right Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer.
The French National Front and the Dutch Party for Freedom are set to make serious challenges for power in next year’s elections.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism



